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Monday, 3 September 2012

#EnviLOD: Project Risks and Budget

Like any project involving software development, as well as research, #EnviLOD is facing a number of risks, detailed below:

Risk Description

Probability (P)

1 – 5

Severity (S)

1 – 5

Risk Score

(PxS)

Detail of action to be taken

(mitigation / reduction / transfer /
acceptance)

Staff recruitment and
retention

1

3

3

EnviLOD draws on experienced post-doctoral staff, who are
already in place at the three partner organisations.

Delays in tool
development and software integration

1

4

4

The chosen LOD-based semantic enrichment and search tools
have been integrated already in GATE. The
project team has track record in LOD-based semantic annotation, thesauri, and
their use for semantic search.

Stakeholder identification and outreach

1

3

3

British Library and HR Wallingford have already strong user engagement. Additional stakeholder identification and
engagement activities will be carried out as part of WP2.

Stakeholders with conflicting requirements

2

4

8

The requirements stage (now completed) would have identified early in the project,
if there are any conflicts.

Requirements gathering over-runs and delays technical
development

2

2

4

The project plan is structured so that initial
requirements are provided by the British Library and HR Wallingford. This
will enable technical development to begin in WP3, while further user
engagement and requirements refinement are carried out in parallel in WP2.

Mismatch against user needs

1

5

5

Tight correspondence between user requirements and the developed
Linked Data solutions will be ensured through our agile methodology, which
includes continuous development-user evaluation loops.

Fail to meet milestones

2

3

6

A project plan with clear objectives, detailed tasks
and timings has been produced. We monitor progress fortnightly.

Unforeseen technical issues

1

3

3

Both the LOD-based semantic enrichment and semantic search
tools will be based on pre-existing open-source prototypes, which will be
developed and customised here.

Stakeholders fail to understand LOD and semantic search

3

3

9

EnviLOD has a
user-driven strategy, informed by the stakeholders from the outset. The
semantic search user interface(s) will be designed in consultation with users.

Accuracy of the automatic semantic enrichment services is
not sufficient

2

4

8

The continuous evaluation with the British Library and
other users will help us monitor accuracy continuously and identify problems
as soon as they arise.

Scalability and real-time text analysis cannot be achieved

3

4

12

Sheffield have experience in large-scale semantic
annotation and scalability is a key project focus. Moreover, it is one of the
main goals to develop methods for selecting appropriate subsets of LOD
resources, this enabling efficient analysis while maintaining sufficiently
high quality of results.

EnviLOD Budget

EnviLOD's total budget is £69,771, with £55,816 being funded by JISC. The budget breaks down as follows: